... it’s the exciting comradery that makes this a great initiative for all involved. It’s really motivating and great for team morale. ...Mncedi Maila, Channels & Platforms Lead at Standard Bank Picture this: a day of getting ...Read More
Hackday 2021 – The Silence of the Lambdas
In the cloud, nobody can hear you stream Since its inception over two years ago the Caplin Managed Services team has been responsible for building and maintaining Caplin’s SaaS cloud offerings. Our cloud infrastructure ...Read More
Hackday 2021 – Electroshock Therapy
This month, Caplin held its biannual hackday event. Developers got into teams of up to 3 and had 24 hours to produce something befitting this year's theme: Speed. Along with my colleague Andrew Voneshen we formed the team “Driving Miss ...Read More
Hackday – gRPC
Our streaming server Liberator serves financial data to browsers with low latency and high resilience. We’ve used it for trading and pricing all kinds of assets in web based trading systems, and particularly for FX. However, this genericity means ...Read More
Pass the Remote – Hack Day 2021
Module Federation is a new feature in webpack 5 that allows you to pull dependencies from external sources. Correctly configured, those imports can be dynamic, shared between multiple apps, and pull in any kind of module (utility, component or feature). What’s ...Read More
Write the Docs: Documenting your APIs using Postman
On Monday evening, Caplin was delighted to host the first Write the Docs London meetup of 2020 at our offices in Leadenhall Street. There was a good turnout to hear Kin Lane (@kinlane) speak about ...Read More
Jam London 2019
A few weeks ago, some of us at Caplin went to Jam London 2019. The location was Hawker House just around the corner from Canada Water, a cool venue very different from the typical dull conference halls we ...Read More
Professional Services: Negotiation course
The Professional Services team recently undertook a three day negotiation course that focused on cooperative negotiations (where both parties are inclined to reach a mutually beneficial deal) rather than competitive negotiations ('my way or the highway'). Whilst everyone ...Read More
Hack Day 2019: WhatsApp trading and chat
Caplin held its 2019 hack day on the 8th of November. The theme was ‘Talking with Robosaurs’, and encouraged projects with a focus on AI, chat and messaging. Focusing on the messaging theme, Adam Iley, Andy Lyons, and Andy Voneshen grouped ...Read More
Hack Day 2019: Jenny the Support bot
The theme for Hackday XI was 'Talking with Robosaurs' - a focus on artificial intelligence and communication. We created a team from our crack Support desk squad- Toby Catlin, Tom Brook and Andy Fernandes. ...Read More